lol you free boarders are so soft!

Cmon over to the paid basketball board where you get some posters complaining about how poorly we played even AFTER Cal beats Stanford.

I get how my negativity is irksome. I apologize. I often celebrate our successes. I'm also an anal retentive perfectionist so I seek out every way in which we could be better, and as annoying as my posts might be sometimes, to me, the annoyance comes from watching games where we keep making the same mistakes, over and over. The rebounding needs to improve. There's no excuse for it. Coming out like we don't care to be there is inexcusable, too. I'll die on that hill. You get millions to have your team ready to give it their all for 40 minutes. Not killing momentum shifts with a timeout is a pet peeve of mine, too. I could keep em to myself, but I don't want to. I want to vent sometimes. Feel free to ignore me. You can always do that. Some have. I know because on several occasions people have made the same point I have, lol. That's fine.

I often post positive stuff, too. I'm probably more negative than positive, but it's because I'm irked by stuff I know we can do better. I don't want Madsen fired. I'm too lazy to look up my post after North Carolina but it was highly complimentary. He's getting better every year. He's clearly making adjustments all over the place, and now even on the fly. I'm very happy with him and proud of what he's done, and proud of all of our bears. This team doesn't have any cancers or selfish guys to my eye, and that's a testament to Madsen's recruiting and coaching. I think a lot of my frustration comes from decades of mediocrity (or futility) in both of our big revenue sports. It's changing. Both sports look great. I'm an absolutely rabid Bear fan. I really am sorry if I'm pissing people off. I think this whole back and forth is kind of silly but if it bothers so many, I will try to be more positive. Go Bears.

Game threads need to be treated like a bunch of drunk Cal fans mouthing off while watching a game together, because that is what they are. The emotional highs and lows can cause over exuberance and despair within minutes of each other. People get pissed. Bar fights happen. What happens in game thread stays in game thread. We have other threads for next day sober analysis and reasoned debate.

bearsandgiants said:

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I get how my negativity is irksome. I apologize. I often celebrate our successes. I'm also an anal retentive perfectionist so I seek out every way in which we could be better, and as annoying as my posts might be sometimes, to me, the annoyance comes from watching games where we keep making the same mistakes, over and over. The rebounding needs to improve. There's no excuse for it. Coming out like we don't care to be there is inexcusable, too. I'll die on that hill. You get millions to have your team ready to give it their all for 40 minutes. Not killing momentum shifts with a timeout is a pet peeve of mine, too. I could keep em to myself, but I don't want to. I want to vent sometimes. Feel free to ignore me. You can always do that. Some have. I know because on several occasions people have made the same point I have, lol. That's fine.

I often post positive stuff, too. I'm probably more negative than positive, but it's because I'm irked by stuff I know we can do better. I don't want Madsen fired. I'm too lazy to look up my post after North Carolina but it was highly complimentary. He's getting better every year. He's clearly making adjustments all over the place, and now even on the fly. I'm very happy with him and proud of what he's done, and proud of all of our bears. This team doesn't have any cancers or selfish guys to my eye, and that's a testament to Madsen's recruiting and coaching. I think a lot of my frustration comes from decades of mediocrity (or futility) in both of our big revenue sports. It's changing. Both sports look great. I'm an absolutely rabid Bear fan. I really am sorry if I'm pissing people off. I think this whole back and forth is kind of silly but if it bothers so many, I will try to be more positive. Go Bears.

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An almost perfect apology! Just need to take out the "if"s in the last few sentences.

Its time for a sweep of the furds which hasnt happened in 19 years. You are not alone as a friend expects a loss at Haas.i would tend to doubt it as we play better at home and furd is not great, especially inside.